Last week was a big scouting week for our family.
If you have boys,
there are a lot of scouting opportunities
from the age eight and on.
Our oldest went on his first week long scouting camp and survived.
Apparently it involved maneuvering through slot canyons,
shooting with bows and arrows,
carrying a huge log and eventually throwing it?!?
And there were many more fun boy activities
that he told me about.
He had a good time
but came home with some
really BIG swollen, sunburned lips
and lots of bug bites,
but like I said he survived.
It was only after he and his father returned from said scout camp
that his father mentioned to me
that this was the exact same camping spot
where a few years prior a young scout had wondered off on his own
and was never seen again.
Thanks hon.
Good thing he told me AFTER they returned home safely.
As a side note, that next day (Sunday) after returning home
our oldest got to give a talk in Sacrament Meeting
for his very first time -
he did awesome.
Our other two scouts,
I mean cub scouts, also had a busy week.
They had two fully loaded days of cub scouting adventures
at their day camps up in the canyon.
And lucky me,
I got to go and supervise one of the days.
That is how I got these shots of our third son shooting arrows
and moving his way through an obstacle course.
Being with eight, 8 year olds for six plus hours,
makes for a very long and tiring day.
I was glad the next day I didn't have to get up
and do it all again.
I wish I had pictures of our second son
but he was at the Webelos camp up the road
and I have no idea what they did or what they earned
but I do know that he came home really dirty so he must have had a fun.
I said to make a silly face,
